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@jlm Very Hollywood style!
@farah had a limited character count. This happened 20+ years ago. I only occasionally remember it now
btlr@infosec.exchange
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We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/
btlr@infosec.exchange
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Nitter, an open-source front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-cease-and-desist-to-open-source-project-nitter-over-alleged-scraping/
http://www.techmeme.com/260825/p44#a260825p44
der.hans
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Flock ALPRs or Axon ALPRs? Same difference, EFF’s Rin Alajaji told Fox10 Phoenix. “There is not good surveillance or bad surveillance... it's just government surveillance of your movements.” https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-police-cancel-flock-contracts-over-data-misuse-while-axon-expands-surveillance-technology
Never really considered Minteh a realistic option after Brighton got greedy.
tante
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Omarchy is the Cybertruck of distros, in case you need to add something to your long ass bio.
Flock ALPRs or Axon ALPRs? Same difference, EFF’s Rin Alajaji told Fox10 Phoenix. “There is not good surveillance or bad surveillance... it's just government surveillance of your movements.” https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-police-cancel-flock-contracts-over-data-misuse-while-axon-expands-surveillance-technology
@eff Does axon sell bundle deals with cameras and tazers?
"Stalk 'em. Taze 'em" <--- free marketing material for axon/tazer
"Stalk them when they're up, taze 'em to the ground" <-- they might need to pay Don Henley for that one
The ferry from Manhattan to Jersey City was blasting Dolly at full volume tonight.
@zackwhittaker gotta love that. Thanks for giving me that borrowed memory
alcinnz
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Very slow day at Repair Cafe yesterday, but I jerry-rigged a CD player into working again despite a mechanically-broken lid! Shoved a roll of paper into the button that lid hits. Success!
Lots of lamps came in just as we were understandably missing our licensed electrician. We had to say "next time".
Though we were able to look at a USB powered lamp. The cord fell off, but once we soldered it back on it turned out that the LED burnt out it.
I've never seen a switch on a USB chord before...
Attorney General Bonta: At California Department of Justice, Public Safety is Job Number One, Two, and Three https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-california-department-justice-public-safety-job-number
Mike Masnick
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kind of wonderful to read all these stories about someone who inspires such an outpouring of joy tbh
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday that 41,174 people were sent to the hospital by ambulance for heatstroke nationwide in July, as many locations recorded temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius or higher. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/25/japan/japan-hospitals-heatstroke/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #heatstroke #elderly
hypebot
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RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/117157922314719683
Happy 35th Birthday Linux 🎂!
We couldn’t afford any RAM this year so here’s a block of silicon so you can compile it yourself.
@emenel @mxchara @leon_p_smith @chx @haihappen @passenger insofar as land has read a book, i guess. but that means he's a more erudite clown. land was *interesting*, but I'm unconvinced he ever reached the status of being *good*
@davidgerard @mxchara @leon_p_smith @chx @haihappen @passenger i never said that he’s a good philosopher. but he is one… he was a tenured professor and the ccru is pretty important in 21st century critical theory…
Today, all the plaintiffs suing to stop Trump from unlawfully interfering with mail-in voting have sought to amend their complaints in response to the ruling yesterday from the Roberts Six that lifted the temporary injunction previously in effect. 1/ #LawFedi
The case is DSCC v. Trump, docket at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73131864/dscc-v-trump/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc
The bottom line: the Roberts Six said that plaintiffs sought injunctive relief too early, before Trump’s
EOs caused any actual harm and before USPS had taken definitive action to implement the unconstitutional commands in them. Now, USPS has issued a final ruling. That, plus other concrete implementation by Trump-controlled agencies, means that the dispute is ripe for a new injunction. 2/
Yet another reason why I rarely even check ol' Twitter: the new owners going hard against privacy mirrors, I wonder how long will bird.makeup survive
RE: techhub.social/users/Techmeme/…
Yet another reason why I rarely even check ol' Twitter: the new owners going hard against privacy mirrors, I wonder how long will bird.makeup survive
RE: techhub.social/users/Techmeme/…
Yet another reason why I rarely even check ol' Twitter: the new owners going hard against privacy mirrors, I wonder how long will bird.makeup survive
RE: techhub.social/users/Techmeme/…
Yet another reason why I rarely even check ol' Twitter: the new owners going hard against privacy mirrors, I wonder how long will bird.makeup survive
RE: techhub.social/users/Techmeme/…
